RELEASE DAY BLAST for BITTERSWEET DECEIT by Blakely Bennett!

Title: Bittersweet
Deceit

(Bound by Your Love, Book 2)

Author: Blakely Bennett

Genre:Erotic Romance

Release Date: August 5, 2014

Lainie is a thirty year old, full-figured woman entrenched in a love
affair with a married man. Although Lainie loves Mason desperately, she vows
never to say those three little words while he remains with his wife.

Stayman, an enigma in Lainie’s close-knit group of friends, has been
circling her with interest, trying to garner her attention. When circumstances
make it clear who’s blocking his way—Mason—Stay goes full-court press in
pursuit of Lainie.

Lainie doesn’t see Stay as relationship potential because she is
blinded by her love for Mason. However, the more she learns about Stay, the
more she comes to realize she never really knew him in the first place.

An unexplainable mystical connection evolves between Lainie and Stay
and she has to choose between a man she so hopelessly loves and a man who
offers her everything she needs.

I slipped into the jacket and latched the repeating
circles onto my wrist. The bottom of the coat stopped just where the broad
lines of the dress changed from horizontal to vertical. “What do you think?” I
asked Samantha.

“You look stunning,” a deep male voice responded. I
turned around and found Stay smiling at me.

“Wow Stay,” Sam said before I could respond.
“Looking mighty handsome. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think this is a
date.”

Stayman looked sharp in his black dress pants,
matching coat, and dark-gray dress shirt. I gazed at him but was at a loss for
words. We stared at each other for a second.

Sam saved me by saying, “Stay, there’s a wire
mannequin in the attic that I’d like brought down, and Lane and I can’t lift
it. I wondered if you could do that for us. Not now. I wouldn’t want you to
mess up your clothes, but—”

As he removed his coat, he said, “It shouldn’t take
long and I’ll just take off my shirt.”He started unbuttoning as both Samantha
and I watched as he slowly revealed his chest. Stay slipped out of his shirt
and laid it neatly on top of his jacket.

His smooth, lean torso was highly defined and I got
caught staring at his chest. He winked at me and then said to Sam, “Come on and
show me the way.”

Once they walked away, I glared into the mirror and
said, “Don’t even think about it.”

Minutes later, he had managed to carry the
mannequin down.

“Let’s put it in the back,” I said, leading the
way. “It needs to be cleaned up before it can be out on the floor.” I showed
him where to put it. Scanning his physique from his head to his shoes, I
noticed that he continued to let his golden-brown hair grow in and chose to
where black boots instead of dress shoes. To make matters worse, his five
o’clock shadow was incredibly sexy. Damn,
he looks hot. Look away girl, just look away!

“Here,”
I said, holding out a lint roller, but not making eye contact.

Some dust had settled on the front of his pants
just over the zipper area. “You don’t want to help?”

I turned away and said, “Go get dressed.”

“Are you sure that’s your final decision?”

“Very sure.” My rapidly beating heart settled down
once his clothing was back on.

“Are you ready to go?” he asked.

“Let me go grab my clothes bag and my clutch and I
will be.” Sam followed me into my office.

“He looks hot!” she exclaimed. “He must really like
you. I’ve never seen him dressed up before.”

“Stop it,” I said, making sure my dress lay
straight.

“Forget about MM for the night,” she said to me
with a serious expression. She pulled the tag off my jacket.

“That’s not possible. Thanks for closing up and
helping with the outfit.”

Author: Blakely Bennett

Author Bio:

Blakely Bennett grew up in Southeast Florida and has been
residing in the great Northwest for over eight years. She graduated from Nova
Southeastern University with a degree in psychology, which accounts for her
particular interest in crafting the personalities, struggles, and motivations
of her characters. She is an avid reader of many genres of fiction, but
especially erotica and romance. Writing has always been her bliss. She is
attracted to stories of self-struggle and ultimate recovery.

Blakely is married to a wonderful, loving and supportive
husband, also a writer, who helps to keep her grounded. She is a mother, a
communitarian, a lover of music (always on while she is writing—thank you,
Pandora), and a good friend. An advocate of love and female empowerment, she is
a facilitator for a women’s group. She loves to walk and hike for exercise and
finds that, since moving to Seattle, WA, she is now one of those “crazy” people
who walk in the rain.

Bittersweet Deceit (erotic romance) is her 6th novel. She is
also the author of the dark erotic suspense, My Body Trilogy (My Body-His, My
Body-His (Marcello) & My Body-Mine) and co-authored the contemporary
romance, The Demarcation of Jack with her husband, Dana Bennett.

Jacqs is a twenty-eight year old woman caught up in an on again,
off again relationship with Bond, who is her best friend and the one who causes
her the most heartache. She succumbs, yet again, to his powerful charisma, but
vows not make it into more than it is, a great night of sex.

Bond, too sexy for his own good, wants Jacqs for himself as
he “dates” his way through the female population of South Florida. He selfishly
doesn’t see the conflict of interest.

Red, Bond’s best friend, has watched Bond take Jacqs for
granted for way too long and soon stakes his own claim on her.

Will Red and Jacqs budding relationship pull apart their
tight-knit group of friends and will Jacqs survive being Stuck In Between.

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